6 Apr
2009
6 Apr
'09
11:23 p.m.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Charles H Dickman
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: The lost art (Was: The VAX is running
Fred Cisin wrote:
Marketable skills ==> engineering degree
Theoretical study ==> science degree
That was always the interesting dilemma hiring people for a software engineering company:
few people ever studied software engineering. I actually found that many of my best hires
were those who had used computers within the discipline of an experimental science or an
engineering program. -- Ian
There are way too many "computer
scientists" who haven't even read
Knuth.
"They only assigned a few specific pages.
But aren't those books written with assembly as the language for the
examples? First, how could anybody get anything done with an assembly
language. And second, it isn't even for a "real" machine. It is
something he cooked up. So you read the book and you didn't even learn
to program a real computer. Where are the marketable skills?
-chuck